Veggie Garden!!!

As some of you may already know, a few weeks ago we got our Mohawk House veggie garden going. C made 2 awesome raised planter beds with lumber we had lying around in the back yard and J and I wound up buying a bunch of plants at the Cuyamaca College Spring Garden Festival. Now, just a few weekends later we're cooking with our very own home grown veggies!

Planting list: 6 types of tomatoes (Early Girl, Cherry, Roma, Beefsteak, Yellow, and Celebrity (I think)), Sweet basil, purple/Asian basil, Cilantro, a lettuce medley, Bell Peppers (Yellow, Red, Orange), Anaheim chiles, strawberry, mint, garlic and onion chives.

Japanese cucumber, zucchini, and butternut squash seeds (from C's Mom) are also scattered in the beds.

We recently planted rosemary in the driveway planters, and some thyme in a pot. So we actually have an operating kitchen garden now - which is super exciting :) C's parents bought us some eco rock gravel for the walks in between and around the beds. Its looking really nice! Our next project back here will probably to plant vines up the side of the clothes lines (behind the beds in the first photo).

                                                

Aeonium Design Studios

 So Aeonium has its own blog now - which is where I will try and be good about posting photos of plans and projects and writing about design things, garden type stuff, and other related items. So if you follow me and want to keep up with my so - to - speak professional life you can follow that at: 

http://aeoniumdesign.blogspot.com/. 

Thanks, and hope to see some of you over there!

Etsy Treasury!

I was featured in an Etsy Treasury today for the first time!!!

Here is the link:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bd4a33aeeb78eef20578936

Finally...

... commercials that make sense. I don't know if y'all have seen these commercials, but I think they are hilarious and refreshing. As far as the actuality of most womens' periods go - they are a lot more reflective than other commercials for menstrual products. Kotex uses footage from previous commercials and a lot of sarcasm to comment on how hush-hush our patriarchal society is about things that happen "down there" and with women in general. The fact that several networks refused to carry the commercial unless they removed the word vagina is kind of ridiculous - and illustrative.
Kudos to Kotex on a more realistic approach to tampon commercials (the two running in the US are below). A bit strange that they used an animatronic beaver for the Aussie version, but that's Aussie humor for ya.





"Don't all of these angles make me seem dynamic?" Awesome.

A Short History

Recently I finished reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and its really a great and fascinating book about the history of science and about the world in which we live. It touches on the beginnings of life, the beginnings of the universe, and all sorts of things. The book concludes with the following passage:

     "If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here - and by "we" I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
     We have arrived at this position of eminence in a stunningly short time. Behaviorally modern human beings - that is, people who can speak and make art and organize complex activities - have existed for only about 0.0001 percent of Earth's history. But surviving for even that little while has required a nearly endless string of good fortune.
     We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. And that, almost certainly, will require a good deal more than lucky breaks. "

I really do like the way Bill Bryson looks at the world.